Delamore Art - Every Day in May - 1030 - 1630

Elizabeth Murphy (b. 1979) is a ceramic artist based in Oxfordshire with a unique approach towards ceramics. Referencing ancient archetypes, her hand built and thrown stoneware vessels reveal the poetry of traditional forms through textural interventions. Working in an improvisational and expressionistic style with meandering and woven texture, the vessel form is revealed, obscured, embraced and transformed by the applied surface decoration giving each piece a sense of movement. Glaze plays an important part adding extra depth to the surface revealing aspects of the texture and form. Each vessel is an investigation where no surface is the same and no two works are alike as each piece seems to lead on to another inquiry in different clay bodies, texture and glaze combinations.